I've been using Yahoo Beta for about 9 months now and it comes up very randomly. I suspect that when emailing others who use the Yahoo mail beta mail, for personal domains, not just for @yahoo.com addresses this comes up.

this is really great news..i hope google follows yahoo in using captcha.its really secure..i've seen what pwncha can do but i hope that captcha's will evolve into a much more complex.i heard that captcha decode such as pwncha aren't 100% effective. this is really great news and bad news for spammers..huh, take that sucka'...

This "captcha" is a PITA & is KILLING ME!! I do NOT have the patience for this!! If there is no provision for me to "opt-out" of this "captcha" thing...I will(VERY SOON) be opting-out of Yahoo Mail!!The thing that really "teed-me-off"? When you click-on "having trouble reading this", it says "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO"! GREAT! So, in other words, you WANT to ANNOY me out of Yahoo email!? You're doing a fine job! Aprilee

This captcha crap is really p**s*g me off because when I try to respond to someone in any domain or even send new mail, I'm getting the captcha code - and I cannot even type in the box to use the code. My cursor DOES NOT even show up on the box to type. I am getting quite fed up with Yahoo and seriously going to have to consider switching all my accounts to Gmail and delete all my Yahoo accounts if they don't fix this captcha crap.

I can only assume the system thinks you are a spammer if you send over a specific amount of messages in a day? Take note, Yahoo, we regular people have emails to use them, not all of us are spammers.

Fix this captcha crap or you'll lose another customer. But then from everything I've seen over the past few years, Yahoo doesn't seem to care much what the users want.

I just got the same CAPTHA crap with my child's email account we just set up, he needs email for school. I sent one test email to my account which was in the contacts to make sure it went through and got this CAPTHA. Then we tried a few more to other family mambers and the same thing. What a load of crap. Stop the spammers, don't close down the internet for legit users. They are making these CAPTHA harder and harder to read to get around programs, but a B looks like a 8, 1 like an l, you can be there all day sending one email Come on Yahoo, your email addresses are the worst spammers, maybe just leave Yahoo to the crooks and the rest of us use GMAIL....

CAPTCHA is a bunch of crap. This is the second time in a month that my account gets locked up by this crap and I'm not even a spamer and have low email volume. Spent 2 hours chatting with a supervisor and no solution. Will probably switch to GMAIL since I'm getting very tired of this BS.

This is a recurring problem with Yahoo and they are not willing to fix it (or most likely are unable to). So instead of turning it off they continue to p..s off customers, even ones in their Premium program. So there is only one solution. Start the slow migration to GMAIL, notifying all of your friends, changing all log ins you have with companies and so on. Thanks YAHOO, your email service sucks.

yeah, it started happening to my daughter.I can understand trying to control spam, but they should atleast allow you to contact them to prove that you are not a spammer.I am in IT and if I treated my users like this, I wouldn't have a job.

This just happened to me. It's ridiculous I'm sending an email to the same person I've been messaging for more than a year without a problem. I have to call BS on this type of behavior. YAHOO is more annoying than the spammers.

Stop the captcha or atleast give us the option to turn it off if we would like. I send out monthly business emails to aprox 500+ customers. Im getting hit with captcha every single email I do now, for 3 weeks straight. Its annoying and its very frustrating at times when it wont send at all. Not due to a error in code but a problem has arised. Then it doesnt save my draft or allow me to go back to the email, it simply deletes it. This is crap, I may have to join many and start using Gmail.

I'm getting the captcha on one of my accounts too. I also am a member of a group that does a weekly project. Each week I send an e-mail out to the group. It's big and now I get a message that it might be spam when I try to send and to break it up into several smaller e-mails. WHAT?!?!

In addition I get the CAPTCHA on almost all my outgoing e-mails in that account. Not my other accounts, just that one.

I contacted yahoo support and the rep said is a "bug in system", "a spam flag being incorrectly set somewhere". Rep said workaround to fix bug ("clear the flag") is to send three (3) blank e-mails addressed to yourself (mark Not Spam when they come), then re-send the real e-mail.

That is an automatic answer from a machine. Yahoo doesn't use people for their service and ut shwos. When one of their managers is hit with BUG they will do something... Until then you can (off course) what I did. Move to other provider. Yagoo mail is the most annoyng when it comes to adds that run without tyour permissin downloading big amounts of data without your consent for which nevetheless YOU have to pay.